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Life & fun · March 5, 2015

Napster

Music-focused online service

Napster launched on March 5, 2015 with 26 votes, #1,099 of 2,697 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 11 years on.

What it does

Napster was a proprietary peer-to-peer file sharing application primarily associated with the distribution of digital audio files such as MP3s . It was launched in June 1999 by Shawn Fanning and Sean Parker . Due to lawsuits alleging copyright infringement , Napster was shut down in July 2001 and filed for bankruptcy in June 2002. [ 1 ] Napster's intellectual property was acquired by Roxio for $5.3 million in November 2002 and it was relaunched under a subscription business model . In September 2008, Napster was purchased by Best Buy for $121 million. It was sold to Rhapsody in December 2011. [ 2 ] In 2016, Rhapsody was renamed Napster. In 2022, Napster was acquired by two Web3 companies,…from en.wikipedia.org

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